Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Injustice breeds injustice
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,--they do, thank God!
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A Visit from Charles Dickens to West Virginia
Vienna Public Library, Virginia (US)
Thu, 2nd February 2012 - Thu, 2nd February 2012
This fast-paced program deals with the writer’s unique connections to western Virginia, and includes sections from his works (including 'A Christmas Carol', 'Great Expectations', 'American Notes', 'A Tale of Two Cities', 'Oliver Twist', 'Nicholas Nickleby', and 'David Copperfield'). Charles Dickens is portrayed by actor and scholar George Bartley (Edgar Allan Poe for the West Virginia Humanities Council History Alive program,) and the program at the Vienna Public Library attempts to recreate what it must have been like during Dickens’s wildly successful 1842 tour of America. On the ship during the journey from England to America, Charles Dickens became friends with Joseph “Diss” DeBar. The picture that Debar drew of Dickens is now one of the treasures of the Department of Archive and History of the State of West Virginia. DeBar later designed the West Virginia state seal and is responsible for the state motto “Mountaineers Are Always Free”. Come to this delightful and educational program, and help the Vienna Public Library celebrate the world’s greatest novelist during the bicentennial of his birth.
